Comments on: Election Thoughts http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:45:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: greg http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/#comment-5880 greg Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:52:41 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/#comment-5880 <blockquote>When it comes to liberty being the almighty's gift and it being our duty to spread it... that seems to be the President's way of binding the evangelical mindset...to the Republican political agenda.</blockquote>Yeah, but does he <i>mean </i>it? He had lots of great things to say about the spreading of freedom and democracy in his inaugural speech, but once people started to ask the hard questions, his people said that we shouldn't take the ideas that he offered too seriously. Hey, as long as it sounds good, who gives a shit, right?<blockquote>The left could use some similar kind of fusion.</blockquote>I agree. I think the Democratic message is 1000% more "moral" than the "do as I say, not as I do" bullshit coming out of the GOP. At this point, the real struggle is to explain that to the American people.

When it comes to liberty being the almighty’s gift and it being our duty to spread it… that seems to be the President’s way of binding the evangelical mindset…to the Republican political agenda.

Yeah, but does he mean it? He had lots of great things to say about the spreading of freedom and democracy in his inaugural speech, but once people started to ask the hard questions, his people said that we shouldn’t take the ideas that he offered too seriously. Hey, as long as it sounds good, who gives a shit, right?

The left could use some similar kind of fusion.

I agree. I think the Democratic message is 1000% more “moral” than the “do as I say, not as I do” bullshit coming out of the GOP. At this point, the real struggle is to explain that to the American people.

]]> By: Joe http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/#comment-5879 Joe Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:19:13 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/#comment-5879 We'll be over there for years, I think. Unless we're seeing 50 people die everyday, or perhaps more. The danger of withdrawing (not to you and me, but to America's imperial projects abroad) is too great. Which is one of the reasons I was against it in the first place. We are stuck there for the foreseeable future. We’ll be over there for years, I think. Unless we’re seeing 50 people die everyday, or perhaps more. The danger of withdrawing (not to you and me, but to America’s imperial projects abroad) is too great. Which is one of the reasons I was against it in the first place. We are stuck there for the foreseeable future.

]]> By: E-Rock http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/#comment-5878 E-Rock Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:53:43 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/01/31/election-thoughts/#comment-5878 Regarding the Prez's "liberty is the almighty's gift," I've been having my own little jumble of thoughts. I've connected before how I think the Republicans are unified only by a fundamentalist mindset-- the same way some Republicans are fundamentalist about the bible, others are about the Constitution. It's a shared mindset. When it comes to liberty being the almighty's gift and it being our duty to spread it... that seems to be the President's way of binding the evangelical mindset (they see it as their duty to preach the good news to the unenlightened) to the Republican political agenda. It's pretty clever when you think about it. As plenty of people have pointed out, the two major factions of the Republican party shouldn't have much in common, but fusing the way the two see our nation and the world is a way of keeping the two sides bound together. The left could use some similar kind of fusion. Regarding the Prez’s “liberty is the almighty’s gift,” I’ve been having my own little jumble of thoughts. I’ve connected before how I think the Republicans are unified only by a fundamentalist mindset– the same way some Republicans are fundamentalist about the bible, others are about the Constitution. It’s a shared mindset. When it comes to liberty being the almighty’s gift and it being our duty to spread it… that seems to be the President’s way of binding the evangelical mindset (they see it as their duty to preach the good news to the unenlightened) to the Republican political agenda. It’s pretty clever when you think about it. As plenty of people have pointed out, the two major factions of the Republican party shouldn’t have much in common, but fusing the way the two see our nation and the world is a way of keeping the two sides bound together. The left could use some similar kind of fusion.

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